Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-08-27
NE WIS NOTES.

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BouIanger has sent a telegram Of condo
/ lence to the widow OF NJ. KatkOf.
Chicago firms have determined to erect ex-
tensive pacZing-houses at Sioux City, Iowa,
| early next spring.
The president is making plans for a weeks
/ fishing in the West Virginia before he starts
on his western tour.
| Paul Grottzau, the anarchist now in du
/ rance at Milwaukee, Is advertising for bonds
/ men.
! A canvass of colored sentiment in the south
| on the school question reveals a strong pre-
] pOnderauce in favor of separate schools, Al
/ though the feeling is that the separation
I should always be made by mutual consent
/ and not by law, as proposed IN Georgia.
! In the criminal court at Chicago. Gar
/ mer' McClaughry, the convicted bOodler,
/ was formally sentenced to two years IN the
/ penteniary, the motion for new trial In his
| case having been Withdrawn. McClaughry
| caused a written statement to be read to the
court, in which he affirmed his entire in
| nOcenc6 of the charges against him, and
| characterized the evidence of the informers
/ Lynn and Bipper as rank perjury. Nc
| Claughry was taken TO Joliet on the after
noon tr7in.
President Cleveland has been invited to
/ visit Dakota during his approaching journey.
Mrs. Louise Grundler, a bride Of foN
| weeks, drowned herself IN the lake at Chica-
I go, her husband having deserted her a fort
night after their marriage.
The wheat crop of Dakota is now estima-
/ ted at 60,OOO,GOO bushels, an increase of .. 20
100000 over last year. The quality Is excel
/ lent.
In his sermon at the dedication of a new
Catholic church near Baltimore, Cardinal
| Gibbons said that the church was the friend
/ of the labOring men, and urged them to re-
main faithful to their religious obligations.
| Father McGlynn's charge that a move
| church in America is denied by Bishop Ire
land, of Minnesota. He predicts the ap-
preaching German Catholic congress in Chi
| cagO will be nothing more than ga sort of
/ good natured Misunderstanding"
The White River Utes are saidto have gone
/ on the war-path. and there is panic among
/ the settlers IN southwestern Colorado
| Governor Ames has been appealed 10 for aid
! and has asked the government at Washington
| 70 send troops TO the scene of the outbreak.
In their weekly trade review R. G. Dun d
/ Co. estimate the loss to farmers by the
drought at over S3OO,OOO,OOO, and predict
that general business viii suffer severely in
| consequence. Money at many interior points
/ is reports tight. The business failures dur
/ ing the last seven days in the United States
| and Canada numbered $50.
The British war-ship WrangIer has just
arrived at Halifax from the coast of Africa.
/ Its supposed mission Is to assist Canadian
cruisers IN looking after the Yankee
poachers.
| George Kearns, of NIcKeesport, Pennsylva-
mia, and George Mace, of Terrence, Penn
sylvania, fought with bare knuckles, near
I Pittsburgh, the latter being knocked out in
the second round.
The visible supply of wheat in this country
| at the present time amounts to -, 1858
| bushels, of corn to {. SO2. 292 bushels and of
/ oats to 3, 12O,327 bushels. Last week the
/ stock of wheat was decreased 92l, 797 bushels.
Rains having refreshed the pastures, fewer
| cattle are being forced on the Chicago market
and with a good demand prices are advanc-
inc, the best steer selling at 81 80 per 100
/ pounds. Hogs and prime sheep are also
ruling higher, owing TO light receipts.
The total failure of the Labrador fisheries
is confirmed.
A Formidable movement has been organ
| lied at Minneapolis for the suppression of
Sunday ball-playing.
The Rock Island and Illinois Central Rail
/ road companies are said TO be negotiating
| for the purchase of the new Minnesota and
| Northwestern railroad.
| All the railroad indemnity lands, embrac-
| ing about twenty-five million acres, have
now open for settlement.
| The forest fires IN northern Michig an have
i been extiHguished by rain. The aggregate
| losses are very heavy.
/ The railway war IN Manitoba Is approach
/ ing a critical stage. The Canadian Pacific
| Is constructing a spur line across the pro
/ posed route of the Red River Valley read,
| with a view to obstructing the latter, and a
| collision between their respective forces Is
/ imminent. The Pacific managers threaten
| a resort to injunction proceedings, but the
/ provincial authorities have been warned not
| to serve the papers under penalty of dismiss
/ al. pubic meeting viii be held at Ninni-
| peg Saturday night, when resolutions viii be
/ proposed asking the interpositiOn of the
/ United States % defeat the schemes of the
| Canadian Pacific and the Dominion govern
ment Premier NOrquay declared at ST. Paul
| that nothing could prevent the completion
| of the Red River Valley road.
! Moloney, the New York Doodle alderman.
| is enjoying life at Ottawa, Canada.
/ The total membership of the order of
| Sons of Veterans, now holding its annual
| encampment at Des MOines, is b, sos, an
/ increase of Il, 243 during the last twelve
| months.